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The Musical Avant-Garde

The Concertgoer

In the knowledge derived from experience.

The knowledge imposes a pattern and falsifies,

For the pattern is new in every moment

And every moment is a new and shocking

Valuation of all we have been.

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Every advance is a new kind of failure. But it will dissolve some of our crude responses in the lucid light of increased sensitivity. The poetry is in the gesture, the reciprocity of effort

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